Dragonbane general thread [+]

[The Soloist]

At a guess the reason being Ben can’t afford to print the tens of thousands of copies required for the economics of scale to kick in.

Of course, if you can't compete with a product, don't talk about it, is the best strategy.

 

[overgeeked]

Of course, if you can't compete with a product, don't talk about it, is the best strategy.

Not sure why you’re so hostile towards Ben. If we’re talking about things that aren’t a good look, that’s a place to start.

 

[Aldarc]

I've also been hoping Ben Milton of Questing Beast would cover Dragonbane. He must know about it by now?

Then again, I've heard him say in a few reviews that he got the product gratis. So maybe that's part of his criteria.

I'm not sure if he would consider it OSR. His usual wheelhouse is OSR and NuSR, particularly D&D adjacent. He does occasionally cover things like Forbidden Lands, but Dragonbane may not quite be the game for him or his target audience.

 

[Von Ether]

He's even covered the play-doh wargame. So while he has a focus, he's also shown things he thinks are super cool but less adjacent. He'll probably get to it one day - and getting a free copy probably wouldn't hurt.

 

[Aldarc]

Holy Crap! This 3rd Party Dragonbane Kickstarter - Windheim Falling - is getting Luke Gygax as a guest writer!

 

[Von Ether]

I'm not sure if he would consider it OSR. His usual wheelhouse is OSR and NuSR, particularly D&D adjacent. He does occasionally cover things like Forbidden Lands, but Dragonbane may not quite be the game for him or his target audience.

Now that I remember, it also probably doesn't hurt to have Ben write for your game as well, as he did a Forbidden Lands adventure. Hexenwald in The Spire of Quetzel.

Holy Crap! This 3rd Party Dragonbane Kickstarter - Windheim Falling - is getting Luke Gygax as a guest writer!

That is cool and I assume it's because the Nordic Skalds feel DB's OSR vibe as well. I really want to take DB for a spin in a bigger sandbox like Neverland, Hot Springs Island, or Dolemnwood.

 

[overgeeked]

That is cool and I assume it's because the Nordic Skalds feel DB's OSR vibe as well. I really want to take DB for a spin in a bigger sandbox like Neverland, Hot Springs Island, or Dolemnwood.

That does sound great. I had pegged Hot Spring Island as a Pirate Borg sandbox, but all of them would be great with Dragonbane.

 

[Von Ether]

The challenge for Hot Springs is for a system agnostic setting, it really goes deep for a whole hierarchy/civilization of elementals. From floating spheres of leadership to mud/steam imps made of mixed elements, only D&D/adjacent has that much elemental variety due to needing monsters and their treasures to feed the XP grind.

On the other hand, DB seems obsessed with making any really weird a demon. It seems to come with the OSR chaos/order viewpoint and perhaps that anything interdimensional is labeled a demon be it spiritual or not.

 

[Aldarc]

On the other hand, DB seems obsessed with making any really weird a demon. It seems to come with the OSR chaos/order viewpoint and perhaps that anything interdimensional is labeled a demon be it spiritual or not.

Sweet music to my ears. Though I don't enjoy it so much from the OSR perspective as much as I do the Moorcock Multiverse perspective. But yeah, from what I gather, demons in Dragonbane are basically extradimensional "aliens."

 

[dbm]

It’s original name was Dragons and Demons so the demon classification makes a kind of sense.